"Great saints of our Church during Divine Liturgy commission saw the holy angels who were worshiping the Lord and singing songs of victory. Such case happened to a young man who during his pilgrimage to Mount Athos Holy stopped in a hotel of one of the monasteries. At night he heard songs coming from church, he thought that Mass began and went down to the church but the doors were locked, he looked out the window and saw angels singing. Quickly got into his room and took the tape recorder and recorded the voices of angels glass church who sang Cherubic moment, specifically the words "life-giving Trinity and triple-holy hymn we ..." slow song in the Byzantine style in the first voice which greatly delight the listener."

I don't know. It could have been a illusion caused by the devil. To be honest, it really doesn't sound like angels. Maybe it was the devil transformed as an angel of light. It could very well have been an illusion. Things like this just don't happen. St Anthony the Great, and many of the other Desert Fathers speak about the Devil doing things very similar to this in order to trick them.

In Elder Paisus' book "Spiritual Struggle", he tells us about how he once heard angelic music while sitting in his cell. This is a very interesting thing he relates to us.

I quote:

"One night at the Stomion Monastery after the Apodeipnon, (4) I was saying the Jesus Prayer while sitting on a stool in my cell. All of a sudden, I heard loud music playing in a nearby building that was used for guests. I was puzzled by this and though to myself, "Who's playing music so close by?" I knew that the annual festival had ended already. I got up from the stool and went to the window to see what was happening outside. I saw peace and quiet everywhere. Then I realized it was a temptation to interrupt my prayer. I returned to my seat and continued to pray. Suddenly a bright light filled the cell. The ceiling disappeared and the roof opened to reveal a beam of light reaching up to heaven. At the top of this beam of light appeared the face of a blond young man with long hair and a bread, who resembled Christ. Because I could only see half of the face, I got up to see him more clearly. Then I heard within me a voice saying. "You have been made worthy to see Christ." But then I crossed myself and said, "Who am I, the unworthy one, to be made worthy to see Christ?" Immediately the light and the supposed Christ disappeared, and I saw that the ceiling was still in place."

"If a person doesn't have his guard up, the evil one can readily enter his mind thought proud thoughts and delude him with fantasies and false lights, none of which can raise us to Paradise; instead, they will hurl us into chaos."

4:The Church Service which in Orthodox Monasteries follows the evening meal.

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"And in Him is no darkness at all,"--that is, no passion, no keeping up of evil respecting any one, [He] destroys no one but gives salvation to all. Light moreover signifies, either the precepts of the Law, or faith, or doctrine."

I love the skepticism Orthodoxy as I understand it over time has attributed to such phenomena.

One of the earliest Fathers:

Quote from: St. Anthony

12. Some brothers came to find Abba Anthony to tell him about the visions they were having, and to find out from him if they were true or if they came from the demons. They had a donkey which died on the way. When they reached the place where the old man was, he said to them before they could ask him anything, "How was is that the little donkey died on the way here?" They said, "How do you know about that, Father?" And he told them, "The demons shewed me what happened." So they said, "That was what we came to question you about, for fear we were being deceived, for we have visions which often turn out to be true." Thus the old man convinced them, by the example of the donkey, that their visions came from the demons.

I don't know. It could have been a illusion caused by the devil. To be honest, it really doesn't sound like angels.

What do you recall angels sounding like?

I must ask, however, what do you mean "things like this just don't happen"?

Didn't St Paul say that he heard inexpressible words in Heaven? 4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. (2Corinthians 12:4 NKJ).

When I said, "things like this just don't happen", I mean to say that this is just so blatant that it cannot be real. God would not allow us to record such a thing. Only very holy people are allowed such visitations. This would cause great diabolical pride for someone in the Church to hear this. They may have thought, "Oh my God, listen to the angels singing in the Church! We are all so holy and God-worthy, and our Church is so God pleasing.!" Or something of that nature.

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"And in Him is no darkness at all,"--that is, no passion, no keeping up of evil respecting any one, [He] destroys no one but gives salvation to all. Light moreover signifies, either the precepts of the Law, or faith, or doctrine."

I was walking into my last job one day and had an mp3 player plugged into my ears with some choral music. I entered the building with someone who worked in a different company in the building and as we walked towards our offices a piece of music started playing which was just like angels. I had forgotted I had the mp3 player on and thought that everyone could hear what I did, and said 'Can you hear the sound of angels singing, isn't it wonderful"'. The other guy looked at me like I was insane and hurried off quickly.

"Great saints of our Church during Divine Liturgy commission saw the holy angels who were worshiping the Lord and singing songs of victory. Such case happened to a young man who during his pilgrimage to Mount Athos Holy stopped in a hotel of one of the monasteries. At night he heard songs coming from church, he thought that Mass began and went down to the church but the doors were locked, he looked out the window and saw angels singing. Quickly got into his room and took the tape recorder and recorded the voices of angels glass church who sang Cherubic moment, specifically the words "life-giving Trinity and triple-holy hymn we ..." slow song in the Byzantine style in the first voice which greatly delight the listener."

Video footage? Could be anything. And anyone could post such a video online and claim that it's the singing of angels. How do we know for certain? Separated from any other sensory input, I'm not sure we can.

I don't know. It could have been a illusion caused by the devil. To be honest, it really doesn't sound like angels.

What do you recall angels sounding like?

I must ask, however, what do you mean "things like this just don't happen"?

Didn't St Paul say that he heard inexpressible words in Heaven? 4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. (2Corinthians 12:4 NKJ).

When I said, "things like this just don't happen", I mean to say that this is just so blatant that it cannot be real. God would not allow us to record such a thing. Only very holy people are allowed such visitations. This would cause great diabolical pride for someone in the Church to hear this. They may have thought, "Oh my God, listen to the angels singing in the Church! We are all so holy and God-worthy, and our Church is so God pleasing.!" Or something of that nature.

More importantly about that Pauline passage, where St. Paul discusses a "certain man" who had such an experience (I love St. Paul's rhetoric, too bad he missed the internet), he does so in the subjunctive saying that he could use such a witness for possible bona fides. Instead he gives a litany of the sufferings he went under for the preaching of the Gospel as a proper measure for his status as an Apostle.

Suffering for Christ > "Miracles" everyday. And the good news is that we all get to suffer all the time. Whether we do it in a manner for the Glory of God is another story and up to us.

I don't know. It could have been a illusion caused by the devil. To be honest, it really doesn't sound like angels.

What do you recall angels sounding like?

I must ask, however, what do you mean "things like this just don't happen"?

Didn't St Paul say that he heard inexpressible words in Heaven? 4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. (2Corinthians 12:4 NKJ).

When I said, "things like this just don't happen", I mean to say that this is just so blatant that it cannot be real. God would not allow us to record such a thing. Only very holy people are allowed such visitations. This would cause great diabolical pride for someone in the Church to hear this. They may have thought, "Oh my God, listen to the angels singing in the Church! We are all so holy and God-worthy, and our Church is so God pleasing.!" Or something of that nature.

More importantly about that Pauline passage, where St. Paul discusses a "certain man" who had such an experience (I love St. Paul's rhetoric, too bad he missed the internet), he does so in the subjunctive saying that he could use such a witness for possible bona fides. Instead he gives a litany of the sufferings he went under for the preaching of the Gospel as a proper measure for his status as an Apostle.

Suffering for Christ > "Miracles" everyday. And the good news is that we all get to suffer all the time. Whether we do it in a manner for the Glory of God is another story and up to us.

Didn't St Paul say that he heard inexpressible words in Heaven? 4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. (2Corinthians 12:4 NKJ).

I don't think this is quite comparable to the situation of St. Paul. Clearly the angels communicate in expressible words at times (the recording is a portion of the Divine Liturgy). I have heard of angels both baptizing and communing individuals, so this story really isn't too unbelievable for me.

When I said, "things like this just don't happen", I mean to say that this is just so blatant that it cannot be real. God would not allow us to record such a thing. Only very holy people are allowed such visitations. This would cause great diabolical pride for someone in the Church to hear this. They may have thought, "Oh my God, listen to the angels singing in the Church! We are all so holy and God-worthy, and our Church is so God pleasing.!" Or something of that nature.

Seeing as we receive the actual Body and Blood of Christ in the Liturgy, I don't know why recording such things would be taboo.

I don't know about sights like this being seen only by the holy. I have read stories of the wicked encountering angels or saints, and through that event, they were led to conversion. Perhaps this event has led to such an conversion in the witness?

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"And in Him is no darkness at all,"--that is, no passion, no keeping up of evil respecting any one, [He] destroys no one but gives salvation to all. Light moreover signifies, either the precepts of the Law, or faith, or doctrine."

The chant does sound identical. Some seem to believe that Dimitrios Sourlantzis is chanting that of the angel's. I am not sure about that as I don't know the history of the particular chant.

Here is a video in Russian dealing with the miracle. Alas my ignorance of Eastern European language hinders my quest for knowledge! If anyone is willing to take the time to translate or at least provide a short summary of the video, I would be most appreciative.

"Great saints of our Church during Divine Liturgy commission saw the holy angels who were worshiping the Lord and singing songs of victory. Such case happened to a young man who during his pilgrimage to Mount Athos Holy stopped in a hotel of one of the monasteries. At night he heard songs coming from church, he thought that Mass began and went down to the church but the doors were locked, he looked out the window and saw angels singing. Quickly got into his room and took the tape recorder and recorded the voices of angels glass church who sang Cherubic moment, specifically the words "life-giving Trinity and triple-holy hymn we ..." slow song in the Byzantine style in the first voice which greatly delight the listener."

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Assuming for a moment this is genuine (I don't think it is. It gives me the willies.) How would it be theoretically validated by the Church?

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No disrespect meant to true Angels of God, but, that "sound" gave me the heebie jeebies!

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look, even the nintendo dsI has a programme that can alter an audio file much like the way this recording sounds. I would bet a pack of lifesavers that it is merely a modified audio file of the Cherubic Hymn. It takes about four seconds to do this and programmes to do it are almost anywhere, even on your child's Nintendo DSI.

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At my parish, we've had a couple of little problems lately, with people's cell phones going off. Most people remember to shut them down before liturgy starts, but there are always one or two who forget. The ringtones will break out at the most inopportune moments.

I thought there was a way to get around that- people should just start using Orthodox chant mp3s as their ringtones. Then, if the phones start, everyone will think it's the choir, and things can proceed as normal.

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He said he had a horrible houseI looked in it and learnt to shut my mouth

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I've heard this recording before, and my thought was, and still is, that it is a somewhat-poor quality recording of a human being chanting that has been sped up to sound high-pitched. It would seem that ma2000 has confirmed my suspicions.

Lord have mercy!!!here I am sitting alone at 1 AM with insomnia , and I heard this recording, and freaked out I had to stop it cross my self brought my prayer book closer to me and I am not one to scare easy.goodness!Lord have mercy! I am sorry if I offended anyone, I love the bezantine chants but something is off with this one.

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To God be the Glory in all things! Amen!

Only pray for me, that God would give me both inward and outward strength, that I may not only speak, but truly will; and that I may not merely be called a Christian, but really be found to be one. St.Ignatius of Antioch.Epistle to the Romans.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I have never actually heard an angel sing. If I have, I was unaware of it.

It's an amazing thought, but there is just as much chance it's a fallen angel singing.

honestly, though, it sounds like someone recorded the little kids at my Church during liturgy and put it with the music.

interesting true experience: About three weeks ago I was taking an exam in French class. The room was quiet, and then I heard the ringing of bells, and it got a bit louder. It couldn't have some from a cell phone or the loud speaker system, as it seemed to come from...I don't know how to describe it...up in the air. I looked around and others were puzzled. I said "I think I heard something...". I heard someone say "Church bells" in the background. I asked "you all heard that too, right?" everyone laughed, but I was seriously wondering if I had gone nutts or something

I don't know what it really was, and I won't know until God wants to reveal it to me.

I dunno, I don't want to be presumptuous but that recording gives me no peace to listen to. The elders say it's better to refuse an angel by caution, etc.

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This has been discussed before, and thoroughly debunked, on other websites (at least Monachos, I think). Yeah, it's a hoax. Just like the "recording" from the microphone down a mineshaft.

This is just someone speeding up the playback of a recording of the Cherubic hymn in Greek. Then they just looped it. That's all.

Why people assume that angels have higher pitched (ie. feminine) voices in the first place is beyond me...

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Was it Divine Liturgy in English in XIXth Century Russia? No, it was not I am the telling you! Is OUTRAGE! Now is to be Slavonic music and Byzantine vestment in same church. This is what when KGB run the seminary.

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Honestly, ive always been skeptical of this sort of thing. In this case, im going to say its fake. I would assume that angels sound a little more "angelic" than that.

I dont know if anyone else saw the "strange icons" thread thats been floating around here, but this sounds like the music that should be sung in the church with the creepy icons. If you saw em, you know what I'm talking about!!

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i don't think it is whatsisname sped up, its not likeits fast, though maybe a pitch change was done, but offhand those voices don't sound human. I'dexpect this of faeries (always some kind of bad) or greyskin aliens. If that. It gave me the willies,and I couldn't keep listening to it. Its either fraudor demonic. And fraud can be inspired by demons,who might contribute something to how the fraudwas shaped to be.

like someone said a saint said, its okay to reject an angel outof caution. better safe than sorry. The only excuse for thosenon human or inhuman voices would be, that the demonswere once this kind of being, and in faking it might sound likethe real thing, so this might be the real thing, but frankly, idoubt it. Why would they sing like this when they knew theycould be heard, when normally they sometimes seem humanuntil you know otherwise? Better safe than sorry. Several people got an almost instinctive gut level rejection attitudegoing, "it gave me the willies" and similar comments. Trustno one and nothing. Even Christ can be imitated by demons.there was a monk who was tricked into worshipping a demonwho pretended to be Christ, and later became possessed, until his friends dragged him physically into church and threwhim to the ground at the foot of the altar or in front of theiconostasis I forget which. Apparently he was freed then.